Am 12. August, Her Majesty's birthday Queen Mother Sirikit, since 1976 is simultaneously the Mother's Day celebrated in Thailand.
Half the country is on its feet to visit their mothers and participate in one of the countless events, the proceeds of which benefit the Queen's charitable projects. The streets and houses are decorated with flower garlands and fairy lights, portraits of the highly revered "Mother of all Thais"Hung up and hers Flagge hoisted.
The color of the Queen Mother is sky blue because she was born on a Friday, and in Thailand this weekday is assigned the color sky blue.
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Sirikit was 1932 in Bangkok as a great-granddaughter of the legendary King Chulalongkorn Rama V born. Her father, the prince of Chanthaburi, served as Thai ambassador to France, Denmark and Great Britain. In Paris, in 1947, she met her future husband, who died in 2016 King Bhumibol Rama IX, know.
At first, it was not love at first sight
"It was hate at first sight," he recalled Sirikit later at the first 1947 meeting in Paris. "He wanted to come at four, but did not arrive until seven. He let me wait and practice the kinks forever. "But that was soon to change. When Prince Bhumibol 1948 had a serious car accident in Switzerland visited Sirikit him daily. While still in the hospital, the prince announced that he would spend the rest of his life with the beautiful and clever princess Sirikit spend wool. It followed the wedding in April 1950, a week ago Bhumibol Coronation. Her love story has enchanted the whole world for decades.
King Bhumibol and Queen Sirikit have four children: Princess Ubol Ratana (* 1951), Acting King Maha Vajiralongkorn (* 1952), Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn (* 1955) and Princess Chulabhorn (* 1957).
First of all, the royal couple celebrated in the European jet set and Sirikit was a regular customer at Parisian luxury tailors. Half of Europe lay at the feet of the breathtakingly beautiful, almond-eyed Queen of Thailand. In 1965, Vanity Fair magazine named her the “best-dressed woman in the world.”
Charity and social commitment as the highest good
At the end of the 1960, the pair retreated from the jet set. Sirikit Now, instead of wearing Parisian haute couture, she wore Thai silk and both focused on the development of her country and on the establishment of social projects. Her main focus was on the protection of minorities and refugees, the preservation and preservation of traditional handicrafts and the protection of nature and species.
For example, in 1976 she founded the SUPPORT Foundation, which made a significant contribution to the creation of new jobs in northern Thailand. Already since 1956 Queen Sirikit can president of Thai Red Cross, than this she established several refugee camps on the Cambodian border, as of 1979 about 40.000 Khmer before Pol Pot's reign of terror fled to Thailand. For setting up the Queen Sirikit Study Center of Wild Plants In 1986 she received an award from the World Wide Fund for Nature as a leading conservationist. The UNESCO honored the Queen 1992 with the gold medal for education, science and culture. In the southern provinces of Thailand is Queen Sirikit because of their tireless efforts Tolerance towards the Muslim minority most popular.
Queen Sirikit today
After the death of King Bhumibol 2016 climbed Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn as Rama X took the throne and married on May 1, 2019 Suthida Tidjai. Hence is Sirikit no longer the Queen of Thailand, but the Queen mother (Queen mother refers to the mother of a queen and a king alike). However, the people still regard her as their queen out of love, respect and appreciation.
After a stroke in 2012, the popular queen and “mother of all Thais” made fewer and fewer public appearances. Since the funeral ceremonies for King Bhumibol you have not seen her at all. Sirikit is mother of four, grandmother of eleven grandchildren and a great-grandson.
